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Celebrate Summer with These 10 Summer Camp Movies and TV Shows
It’ll feel like you’re back at sleepaway camp with these picks.
Bonfires! Canoes! A best friend from a different state that you never saw again! Summer wouldn’t be the same without sleepaway camp, and to celebrate this time-honored summer tradition, we’ve assembled a list of 10 summer camp movies and shows to stream on Peacock.
1. Wet Hot American Summer (2001)
With a stacked cast featuring Amy Poehler, Paul Rudd, Molly Shannon, and Bradley Cooper (in his film debut) this all-time comedy movie takes place on the last day at a sleepaway camp in Maine in 1981, where campers and counselors prepare for the talent show. Packed with jokes, this cult classic spoofs both raunchy ‘80s comedies and experiences anyone who’s been to sleepaway camp will immediately recognize.
Stream Wet Hot American Summer.
2. Summer Qamp (2023)
This documentary film follows a diverse group of LGBTQ+ teens as they attend Camp fYrefly, a special summer camp designed to provide a supportive and accepting environment. Through personal stories and shared experiences, the film highlights the importance of community and self-discovery. And with the news that Clea DuVall will be adapting the doc into a musical, now is the perfect time to stream this heartwarming story.
Stream Summer Qamp.
3. Camp Lakebottom
For the kids who can’t wait to head to camp, or just got back and miss it more than anything, Camp Lakebottom is an animated show that follows a group of kids who end up at a spooky run-down summer camp filled with supernatural creatures. The series follows their bizarre adventures as they form strong friendships and discover the mysteries of Camp Lakebottom.
Stream all three seasons of Camp Lakebottom.
4. Sleepaway Camp (1983)
This cult-classic horror film from the ‘80s certainly puts the camp in summer camp. A slasher whodunnit set at a sleepaway camp, the film follows the introverted Angela Baker, who is sent to a camp where a series of gruesome murders occur. Weird, bloody, funny, and pulpy, Sleepaway Camp is most famous for its notorious and jaw-dropping twist ending.
Stream Sleepaway Camp.
5. Camp Camp
This animated series, for a bit older kids than Camp Lakebottom, follows the misadventures of a group of mischievous campers at the horribly run-down Camp Cambell, called Camp Camp, run by a shady business mogul. The series centers on the cynical camper Max, who, stuck at the camp, must find a way to survive the strange campers and his annoying counselor while plotting his escape home.
Stream the first two seasons of Camp Camp.
6. Camp WWE
WWE stars are already pretty animated individuals, but in Camp WWE, they’re actually animated. This adult animated comedy reimagines popular WWE wrestlers as kids attending a summer camp.
Stream Camp WWE.
7. Love Island USA
Okay hear us out: at the end of the day, if you really think about it, the Villa is pretty much a sleepaway camp for adults, right? Love Island USA follows a group of singles (and their camp counselor Ariana Madix) as they spend a summer in a secluded resort and attempt to couple up with one another for a shot at love and 100,000 dollars.
Stream Love Island USA, Love Island: Games, and Love Island All Stars.
8. Piranha (1978)
Look is this movie Jaws? Of course not. Jaws is Jaws (and it’s streaming on Peacock), but this campy horror b-movie is delightful all on its own. When a swarm of bloodthirsty piranhas are released into a river, a group of unlikely heroes must stop the deadly fish before they make their way to the waters of a nearby summer camp.
Stream Piranha.
9. Beaver Falls
Three British university graduates manage to land jobs as camp counselors at an elitist California summer camp full of rich kids. As they attempt to make the most of their summer, they soon find out the job isn’t as cushy as they’d imagined.
Stream both seasons of Beaver Falls.
10. Campfire Christmas (2022)
Celebrate Christmas in July with Hallmark on Peacock! In this heartwarming holiday romance, a group of old camp friends reunite at Christmastime at the sleepaway camp from their youth to spend the holiday together before the camp closes. Will old romances be rekindled and new relationships blossom amid an air of campfire nostalgia and holiday magic? Yes.
Stream Campfire Christmas.
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